So...you lied on an internet chat forum? Has it occurred to you how many of the other users are also liars? Did you know that many users in forums such as this are men posing and young girls to get their rocks off?

I'm not going to defend the scumbags out there on the internet. I am going to criticize your attempts to trap them by using their methods. Your "passion" is you getting your rocks off. The simplest method to protect children from the internet is to limit access to it. I used to say that educating children is a better method but that presumes that children will only do what you tell them to do. I tell my kids to not drink or do drugs. They know that unprotected sex can have serious consequences and that sharing personal info online with strangers is shockingly stupid. Oddly, in light of this knowledge, my children have done all of these things.

Every. Single. One.

More than once.

So far, the consequences have been minimal, and they usually are, if the frequency of severe consequences was higher we'd have far fewer adults who have first hand knowledge to use when educating their children. Well, we'd also have far few adults overall.

My advice to you is to stop pretending you re a cop. That you stop staring into the abyss and get a better hobby, like, oh I don't know, writing angry letters to the editor or manufacturers or the like. That will be way more productive. If that doesn't grab you then perhaps you should just take a nap.